Complete these sentences with appropriate prepositions.

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Which of the adjectives below suggest a small change and which suggest a large change?

Now complete the description of the graph using the words below.

The chart represents sales of monitors to Egypt over the last financial year. At the outset of the year, sales (1)………………. until June. Then they (2)………………. for two months until in September sales began (3)………………………. for three months. They continued to (4) ………………….. by a hundred units in September but then (5) ………………………… in November, (6)………………………………450 in December – to an unprecedented level. However, sales then (7) …………………… to fifty units in January. There are various reasons for this but the big worry is that they (8)……………………….

peak remain steady plummet level off

soar creep up fluctuate slump

dramatic slight steady sharp steep

1. Sales have increased ……….$5m………$7m.

2. Sales have increased ………….$2m.

3. There has been an increase ………$2m in our sales.

4. Sales now stand …………..$7million.

5. Sales reached a peak ………….$7million in July.

6. Sales reached a low point ……………….$1million in April

5. Many verbs are used with the noun price to form collocations. Replace the words in bold with one of the verbs from the box below.

1. That shop's really expensive – they are always increasing the prices.

2. He asked me to pay a high price to repair my car.

3. If you put your prices too high, then people simply won't be interested.

4. He knows everybody will buy his goods, so he is able to controlthe prices.

5. It is considered unfair for competing shopkeepers to secretly agree on their prices.